Fastening device



June 12, 1934. w, KEYS 1,962,600

FASTENING DEVICE Filed Aug. :5; 1933 INVENTOR Patented June 12, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FASTENING DEVICE William A. Keys, New York, N. Y.

Application August 3,

2 Claims.

jects of the invention are to simplify the conadapted to be longitudinally regulatable.

struction of such devices as are in use at the present time; to provide a fastener of decreased size and bulk and incidentally maintain that portion of the neckband of the tie wherein the fastener is situated as thin and smooth as possible.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a necktie of the so-called wing type, provided with the improved fastening device; Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the neckband of the tie showing the fastening device in section; Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a part of the neckband and a transverse section of the fastening device showing the manner in which it appears when the neckband is being slidably adjusted through it; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the fastener.

In the drawing a necktie of the so-called wing type is shown, the neckband of which is Said neckband is provided with two end portions 5 and 8. The end portion 5 is permanently stitched at 6 to a metal loop member 7. The opposite end 8 of the neckband is looped through the member 7 and has its end permanently secured or stitched at 9 to a longitudinal bar 10 forming a part of the improved fastening device 15. The fastening device 15 is in the form of an elongated loop member or frame preferably stamped from sheet metal and provided with a pair of longitudinal, spaced, parallel bars 10 and 11 having their ends integrally connected by shorter end pieces 12 and 13, these end pieces being transversely bent or arched so that the two bars 10 and 11 are as a result angularly positioned with respect to one another. The end portion 8 of the neckband of the tie is slidably adjustable through the fastening device 15 in the space between the bars 10 and 11; passes through the loop member 7 and has its extremity permanently secured or stitched at 9 about the bar 11. This arrangement produces a loop 14 in the neckband which is regulatable as to size by sliding the fastening member to or from the loop member 7.

When pull is exerted on the neckband, as is the case during the wearing of the necktie, the fastening device 15 assumes the position shown in Fig. 2, where it will be seen that the bar 10 acts as a cinch and resists sliding of the neck- 1933, Serial No. 683,445

hand through the fastening device. To enlarge or decrease the size of the loop, the fastener is manually slid along the neckband to the desired position, the same positioning itself as shown in Fig. 3 during this manual adjustment of the loop 14. The fastener is very small and compact, and therefore produces no bulk or bulging in the neckband of the tie.

While I have shown the improved fastening device in connection with the adjustment of the neckband of a necktie, it will be obvious that it may be used in other environments, such as for the adjustment of belts or straps of different kinds.

What I claim is:

1. A one-piece fastening device of the character described comprising, a frame in the form of a continuous elongated loop formed with a pair of continuous long parallel bars connected by short integral connecting end pieces only, one of said bars receiving the permanent attachment of the looped end of a band, said band being doubled on itself and passed between the two parallel bars, the end pieces of the frame being sharply bent to position the bars at a sharp angle with respect to one another so that the second bar frictionally bears against the face of that portion of the band which extends between the bars and is caused to increase its frictional pressure on the band by pull exerted on the end of the band permanently attached to the first bar, the entire device having a single central opening only.

2. A fastening device of the character described comprising, a frame having two continuous elongated bars, one of which receives the end of a band, short, integral, acutely bent end pieces connecting the ends of said bars, one of said bars being positioned at an acute angle to the other bar, whereby sliding of a portion of the band placed between the two bars is frictionally resisted by the angularity of the second bar, the entire device having a single central opening only and being of one-piece of material and complete in and of itself.

WILLIAM A. KEYS. 

